Archive for the 'War' Category
IRAN: BRITISH EMBASSY STAFF ARRESTED
June 28th, 2009Via: CNN: Local staff members at the British Embassy in Tehran have been arrested, the Foreign Office in London told CNN Sunday, confirming earlier reports from Iran’s government-backed Press TV. Press TV said eight staffers had been seized for their role in the unrest following the disputed presidential elections on June 12. The Foreign Office […]
Saddam Hussein Bluffed About WMDs Fearing Iranian Arsenal, Declassified FBI Files Show
June 26th, 2009Via: New York Daily News: Saddam Hussein feared Iran’s arsenal more than a U.S. attack, and even considered asking ex-President George W. Bush “to protect” Iraq from its neighbor, once secret FBI files show. The FBI interrogations of the toppled tyrant – codename “Desert Spider” – were declassified after a Freedom of Information Act request. […]
Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
June 25th, 2009Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order by F. William Engdahl: For the faction controlling the Pentagon, the military industry, and the oil industry, the Cold War never ended. They engineered an incredible plan to grab total control of the planet, of land, sea, air, space, outer space and cyberspace. Continuing ‘below […]
Ministry of Defence Blocks Wikileaks
June 25th, 2009Via: Guardian: The Ministry of Defence is trying to block all internet access to the whistleblowing site Wikileaks from thousands of its own computers after discovering that dissidents have been using it to leak copies of British military manuals. Newly obtained MoD emails reveal alarm over the discovery that Wikileaks is freely publishing manuals that […]
China Buys Addax for £4.4bn to Tap Iraqi Oil
June 24th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Who provided the credit for the U.S. to go to war in Iraq? Mmm hmm. See the part in bold below for a hint on where oil prices are headed. Via: Telegraph: China has made its first big foray into Iraq […]
Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader to U.S. Intelligence is Assassinated
June 24th, 2009Via: Prison Planet: A whistleblower who defected from the Pakistani Taliban has been assassinated just days after he claimed that the group was working with US intelligence to destabilize the country. Qari Zainuddin, a tribal leader of the South Waziristan region in Pakistan was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman said to be loyal […]
Dick Cheney Working on Grimoire
June 24th, 2009Working title: “It Rubs the Lotion on Its Skin or Else It Gets the Hose Again.” Via: AP: Former Vice President Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster and said he hopes readers of all ideologies will be interested in his story. The memoir by Cheney, widely […]
Australia: Anti-Fluoride Extremists ‘Threaten to Kill MP’
June 22nd, 2009Via: The Age: Anti-fluoride extremists have threatened to kill a Victorian government minister and blow up a regional water authority. As anger over fluoridating Geelong’s water supply mounted today, Labor minister Lisa Neville has been targeted along with water and health officials. A death threat was left with a bottle of water on the verandah […]
U.S. State Department Speaks to Twitter Over Iran
June 17th, 2009The Internet has been playing an increasingly important role in international politics. One highly significant effect of Internet use overseas has been to circumvent the informational controls imposed by authoritarian regimes on their citizens… Predictions… The Internet will be used as a tool of statecraft by national governments… The Internet will play an increasingly significant […]
Defense Department Sees Protests as Terrorism
June 16th, 2009Allow me to distribute a clue to the ACLU. This is from my 2005 essay, Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State: The U.S. military classifies political activism as “low intensity conflict.” The scale of warfare (in terms of intensity) begins with individuals distributing anti-government handbills and public gatherings with anti-government/anti-corporate […]
